No mass-independent sulfur isotope fractionation in auriferous fluids supports a magmatic origin for Archean gold deposits

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 791-794

  Xue, Yunxing ^a   Campbell, Ian ^a   Ireland, Trevor R ^a   Holden, Peter ^a   Armstrong, Richard ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD MINERALIZATION; GREENSTONE BELTS; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; METAMORPHIC FLUIDS; MULTIPLE SULFUR ISOTOPES; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN CRATONS;

DEPOSITS; GOLD; ISOTOPES; PYRITES; SHALE; SULFUR;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

ARCHEAN; CRATON; GOLD; GREENSTONE; ION MICROPROBE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; MINERALIZATION; PYRITE; SOURCE ROCK; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

BELLEROPHON;

EID: 84880288403     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34186.1     Document Type: Article

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